Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:38:33 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: 3BSD <assadbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of 5.3 on Sun Blade 100 Message-ID: <4145BEF9.9030204@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <f864608004091306203fecd267@mail.gmail.com> References: <f864608004091306203fecd267@mail.gmail.com>
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3BSD wrote: >Hi, > >I have a couple of Sun Blade 100 workstations, and I would like to >install FreeBSD on one or both of them. The last time I tried (5.1-R, >and I read that the situation has not improved much with either 5.2 or >5.2.1), there was no keyboard/mouse/floppy support and you had to >install FreeBSD using a serial console. Has that (or will that) change >with 5.3-RELEASE/STABLE? > >I would like to use one of the Blade 100s as a dedicated workstation, >and if 5.3-R works fine, I'll buy a nice LCD display for it. > >Anyone care to shed some light on this? > > If you wait a little while longer and still see no reply to this message, I'd recommend sending this question over to freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org. You might want to check their charter first, but I'm guessing that they'd be open enough to consider your question "on topic" for their list. I regret that I no absolutely nothing about the state of FBSD on the *SPARC architecture :-( Kevin Kinsey
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